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The Galleries

The Biomuseo’s permanent exhibition is titled Panama: Bridge of Life. Eight galleries and eight "devices of wonder" tell us about the origin of the Panamanian isthmus and its gigantic impact on the planet’s biodiversity. These galleries were conceived by Canadian designer Bruce Mau, founder of the Institute Without Boundaries.

Gallery of Biodiversity

There is an incredible abundance and variety of life on Earth. The visitor is greeted with a huge multicolored stained glass, fourteen meters long and eight meters high, representing the explosion of life in Panama.

Panamarama

We live surrounded by a vast amount of living beings and communities. A three-story projection space with ten screens will immerse the visitor in an audiovisual rendering of the natural marvels that compose all of Panama’s ecosystems.

Building the Bridge

Panama is a living bridge that emerged from the sea three million years ago. The tectonic forces inside the Earth that formed the isthmus are represented by three rock formations, fourteen-meters high, in a space full of tactile and physical encounters with the geological world.

Worlds Collide

The closure of the isthmus of Panama generated a great exchange of species between North and South America, two land masses that had been separated for 70 million years. The visitor is received by two animal stampedes representing the megafauna that began this unique journey almost three million years ago.

The Human Path

Human beings are an integral part of nature. In a partially open-air space, sixteen columns provide information on the relations between human activity and nature in Panama 15,000 years ago — the estimated date when the first settlers arrived to the isthmus — to the present.

Oceans Divided (UNDER CONSTRUCTION)

When Panama emerged, two very different oceans were formed, changing life all over the planet. Two 10-meter high, semi-cylindrical aquariums will show how the Pacific and the Caribbean evolved in drastically different ways after being separated by the creation of the isthmus.

The Living Web (UNDER CONSTRUCTION)

To demonstrate how living things need and compete with each other in complex and often invisible ways, a huge sculpture — equal parts plant, animal, insect, and microorganism — will immerse the visitor in a dimension where all living things are just as important.

Panama is the Museum (UNDER CONSTRUCTION)

The biggest wonders await the visitor outside the museum. Panels and displays show the relations between Panama's biodiversity and the world, and offer access to a virtual network linking the museum with the rest of the country.